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We are Jerusalem's leading English-language publisher of books about Israel, Judaism, and Jewish history and culture, read by people around the world. Our catalog covers the full range of Jewish and Israeli life: Bible commentary and Jewish thought, Zionist history and pre-state Israel, Holocaust memoirs and resistance literature, biographies of Israel's leaders and everyday heroes, children's books, Hebrew-language learning guides, cookbooks, and contemporary fiction. In recent years we have also published firsthand accounts and reflections from Israel's hardest days, including the books that emerged after the October 7th war. Wherever the Jewish story is being written, we want to be among the ones helping tell it. Over more than four decades, Gefen has published work by some of the most recognized voices in Jewish and Israeli life.

About Me

A Story That Begins on a Ship

In 1947, a twenty-year-old American merchant marine veteran named Murray Greenfield boarded a ship called the Hatikva. His mission, organized in secret by the Haganah, was to help smuggle Holocaust survivors past a British naval blockade and into Mandatory Palestine. The British intercepted the ship and sent Murray to a detention camp in Cyprus. He reached Israel soon after and never left.

There he met Hana Lustigova, a young woman who had survived Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, and who would go on to devote her life to Holocaust education and remembrance. They married and built a family in Israel. In 1973, Murray self-published a survival guide for new immigrants called How to Be an Oleh, in what was likely Israel's first self-publishing venture. Eight years later, in 1981, he and Hana turned that experiment into something permanent and opened Gefen Publishing House in Jerusalem, named for the Hebrew word for "vine."


Three Generations, One Mission

Gefen has stayed a family business ever since. Murray and Hana's son, Ilan Greenfield, now serves as CEO and has guided the company through the rise of e-books, print-on-demand, and global online retail. A third generation, Ilan's son Binyamin, now helps lead Gefen's digital and technical side, carrying the founders' original mission into a new era of publishing. What started as one self-published book has grown into a catalog that passed 900 titles some years ago and keeps growing by roughly forty new books every year.

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